Yannis Livadas – John Coltrane And 15 Poems For Jazz
27Ιαν
Translated by Jack Hirschman & Dimitri Charalambous
(C.C. Marimbo, Berkeley, California 2008)
METAPHOR
When the Dolphy family
delivered
the wind instruments of its dead
to John Coltrane
a black god knew
what it meant
TONY FRUSCELLA
One day we’ ll meet each other
in the pipe of some trumpet
who collapses first in
expression
my brotherly Delphic bro.
Alcoholique, drogue et finalment closardise.
That on one leg
whatever we say stands
how can we say
SATURN ROLLS IN THE GRAND CANYON
(For Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton)
Much more than music creating
numbless in the enviroment
since the form that concerns him
is an all-embracing
graph which sences how he feels it
and that
not the totality
– an encounter’s fracture with a demand for diminishing
but somewhere it’ ll stop and become again as it was, having acquired
time-worn wrinkles of a
reality that bubbles up from deep
pores at only one point
in the realm of his loneliness –
since the form that concerns him is
mean and self-styled
much more than
death.
